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Numbers 35:11

Numbers 35:11
Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.

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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771

Then ye shall appoint your cities to be cities of refuge for you,.... And, according to the Jewish writers (i), these…

Adam ClarkeMethodist theologian, 1762–1832

Ye shall appoint - cities of refuge - The cities of refuge among the Israelites were widely different from the asyla…

Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921

ye shall appoint Perhaps better ye shall select. The verb in this sense is not found elsewhere in the O.T.

cities of…